Vegetable Tartlets with Cauliflower Cream (185 calories) Recipe
Flavors of Bordeaux
Difficulty: Average
Chef's Note
A recipe from Franck Salein, Chef at Sources de Caudalie
Ingredients
For 6 servings
For the cauliflower mousseline
- 1 cauliflower
- 500 ml (2 cups) white chicken stock
- 1 fennel bulb
To prepare the vegetables
- 1 zucchini
- 1 carrot
- 2 tomatoes
- 1 red onion
- Thyme, bay leaf, garlic
- Sugar
Other
- 3 sheets of phyllo pastry
- Salt and pepper
- 350 ml (1 1/3 cup) olive oil
- 250 ml (1 cup) cream
- 300 ml (1 1/4 cup) Cabernet Sauvignon vinegar
Aromatic herb emulsion
- 1/2 bunch chives
- 1/2 bunch chervil
- 1/2 bunch flat-leaf parsley
- 1/2 shallot
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/2 tsp. mustard
Method
Preparing the vegetables
- Peel, quarter and seed the tomatoes.
- Lay the tomato wedges flat on a baking sheet; sprinkle with salt, pepper, sugar, garlic, thyme, bay leaf and olive oil.
- Peel the onions, cut into 6 and continue as for the tomatoes, omitting the sugar.
- Place them in an 85° C (185° F) oven with the tomatoes. The tomatoes will require about 3 hours, the onions only 1 1/2 hours.
- Cut the carrots into sticks. Sauté them in a little olive oil with thyme, bay leaf, salt and pepper until lightly colored.
- Cut the zucchini on a mandolin; blanch lightly and refresh.
For the cauliflower mousseline
- Cut the cauliflower into several pieces and cook in the seasoned white chicken stock.
- Purée the cauliflower in a blender, then drain through cheesecloth.
- Cut the fennel with a mandolin, season with olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper. Whip the cream and season. Fold together the whipped cream and cauliflower purée.
Assembly
- Using a round cutter, cut out a circle of phyllo pastry and form a tartlet in a mold.
- Place in the oven for a few minutes until lightly browned.
- Arrange the mousseline and vegetables attractively in the tartlet.
- Finally, to make the aromatic herb oil, blend together the egg yolk, mustard, shallot, garlic and herbs, slowly pouring in the oil.
- Serve the aromatic herb oil on the side.
Sommelier
Château Canon 2001
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